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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

Jai Kisan, say veteran jawans now stationed on Delhi’s borders in solidarity with farmers

The armed forces veterans’ presence at the protest sites has added a sense of security, national pride, hundreds come to meet the ‘heroic faujis’.

Jan 15 talks inconclusive: Centre and farmers remain at loggerheads

Farmer leaders said they will not budge from their demand for repeal of the three laws and legalisation of MSP

Defending Human Rights is not terrorism!

100 days behind bars, Fr. Stan Swamy continues to inspire

Covid Vaccination: Are Indians being made guinea pigs?

Efficacy report pending, yet government greenlights use of indigenously developed Covaxin

NIA summons farmers union leader Baldev Singh Sirsa for questioning

Sirsa the president of Lok Bhalai Insaf Welfare Society, says National Investigation Agency action is bid to derail protest

Delhi Police cracks down on MPs, MLA sitting on farmer solidarity protest at Jantar Mantar

Police action comes after Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi visited their party colleagues at the site, and also accused the government of being anti farmer

Maharashtra organisations declare protests marches from Jan 23-25

Various farmers groups, trade Unions, people’s organisations, and state ministers promise to participate in the protests starting from January 23.

Plea for CAA protest videos ‘not valid’: Delhi Police to High Court

Devangana Kalita had sought copies of videos of anti-CAA protests and other electronic data available with the police

Women farmers, students write open letter against SC’s comment on women farmers

Requesting the apex court to refrain from undermining women’s participation in the farmers struggle, leaders pointed out the significant role women have played in the movement so far

PIL filed in MP HC challenging validity of state’s anti-conversion law

A law student has filed the petition stating that the ordinance violates right to privacy and freedom of choice as also principles of criminal law jurisprudence

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